I'm Getting an Inkling

Yesterday, I sat in a pub for four hours with Jon and Magda, working on Latin homework. It was actually kind of awesome. I felt very Tolkien/C. S. Lewis-esque. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were professors at Oxford (Tolkien was primarily a linguist, Lewis a medievalist, though there were definitely crossovers). They and their buddies formed a group called the Inklings, and would get together at the Eagle and Child pub to discuss their latest works, including The Lord of the Rings and Out of the Silent Planet. Actually, the Hobbit actually started as a linguistics project, and then grew into a full-length fantasy novel.

But back to Latin. Discovery of the evening? I am, by some strange coincidence, very adept at translating sentences involving the words "book," "sword," and "war." This ability doesn't stem from my being a proficient of any other aspect of Latin, trust me. Furthermore, for some equally bizarre reason, our textbook seems to always throw "book" in the same practice sentences and phrases as "sword" or "war." (For those who don't know, I did my undergraduate thesis on legendary swords in medieval literature). I think it's a sign--I was definitely meant to be in Medieval Studies rather than English Literature.